Miscellaneous Prose Works, Volumen 18Black, 1853 |
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... genius of the age . When they had secured an interesting set of characters , the authors could not resist the temptation of bringing them again upon the stage ; and hence , the endless continuations with which Amadis and the other ...
... genius of the age . When they had secured an interesting set of characters , the authors could not resist the temptation of bringing them again upon the stage ; and hence , the endless continuations with which Amadis and the other ...
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... genius to fetch back goods that were stolen - yea , to raise spirits , and fetch treasure out of the earth . However , miseries I gained , and was up and down looked upon as a dangerous man ; and therefore have several times in vain ...
... genius to fetch back goods that were stolen - yea , to raise spirits , and fetch treasure out of the earth . However , miseries I gained , and was up and down looked upon as a dangerous man ; and therefore have several times in vain ...
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... genius which he really pos- sessed , but the fashion of them is strange to the present day . His elocution must have been warm and fervent ; and he himself even distrusted the degree of applause which he excited . " One day when he had ...
... genius which he really pos- sessed , but the fashion of them is strange to the present day . His elocution must have been warm and fervent ; and he himself even distrusted the degree of applause which he excited . " One day when he had ...
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... genius often neglects in its pride of luxuriance , and seldom without paying the penalty in popular opinion . It is not , however , the words and manner of the Pilgrim's Progress alone which have raised that singular allegory to so high ...
... genius often neglects in its pride of luxuriance , and seldom without paying the penalty in popular opinion . It is not , however , the words and manner of the Pilgrim's Progress alone which have raised that singular allegory to so high ...
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... genius in this line was particular , gives us a list of company , of each of whom we form a distinct and individual idea from the name alone : - " With old Lady Towzer , And Marshal Carouser , Came the great Hanoverian Baron Panmouzer ...
... genius in this line was particular , gives us a list of company , of each of whom we form a distinct and individual idea from the name alone : - " With old Lady Towzer , And Marshal Carouser , Came the great Hanoverian Baron Panmouzer ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance adventures Amadis Amadis de Gaul ambassador Anabaptist ancient appear beautiful become Bertram betwixt bothy Bunyan Caleb Williams called castle character chivalry circumstances composition Courcy daughter death degree described effect Elstow excited eyes fancy father favour fear feeling fiction Fleetwood Frankenstein French Galaor genius Hajji Baba hand heard heart hero Hoffmann honour human imagination incidents interest John Bunyan King knights lady Lancaster language length light Lisuarte Lobeira lover manner marvellous melancholy ment merit mind Mirza moral Musaeus narration narrative nature never novel Oriana passion perhaps Persian person Pilgrim's Progress poetry Portugal present prose racter reader recollection remarkable resemblance romance romantic fiction scene seemed singular Southey species spirit story style supernatural supposed tale talents taste terror thing thou thought tion Tizona Valencia Vasco de Lobeira Wentworth wife writing XVIII young Zaira
Pasajes populares
Página 258 - His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
Página 78 - About this time, the state and happiness of these poor people at Bedford was thus, in a kind of Vision, presented to me. I saw as if they were set on the Sunny side of some high Mountain, there refreshing themselves with the pleasant beams of the Sun, while I was shivering and shrinking in the Cold, afflicted with Frost, Snow, and dark Clouds.
Página 258 - I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation ; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
Página 275 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Página 171 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Página 79 - But forasmuch as the passage was wonderful narrow, even so narrow that I could not but with great difficulty enter in thereat, it showed me that none could enter into life but those that were in downright earnest, and unless also they left that wicked world behind them ; for here was only room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and sin.
Página 276 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Página 116 - He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride. He that is humble, ever shall Have God to be his guide. I am content with what I have, Little be it or much ; And, Lord, contentment still I crave, Because thou savest such. Fulness to such a burden is, That go on pilgrimage ; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.
Página 277 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction and subjects of fancy ; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian...
Página 155 - Next in three books spoil'd human nature : Undid Creation at a jerk, And of Redemption made damn'd work. Then took his Muse at once, and dipt her Full in the middle of the Scripture. What wonders there the man, grown old, did ? Sternhold himself he out Sternholded. Made David seem so mad and freakish, All thought him just what thought King Achish. No mortal read his Solomon But judg'd Re'boam his own son. Moses...